Ohio Guardsman charged for false funeral expenses
According to the Dayton Daily News, Sergeant First Class Jason Daniel Edwards, of the Ohio National Guard, a member of the area honor guard, filed for expenses for 130 funerals that he didn’t attend, racking up over $10,000 from his scam;
From September 2013 to July 2014, investigators found Edwards claimed mileage reimbursements for 89 funerals that paperwork did not list him as attending. On another 17 funerals, he was listed as attending but claimed mileage to a funeral farther away. And 24 times he claimed reimbursement for mileage to a location where there was no funeral.
Edwards told investigators that he was receiving complaints about some of the soldiers on funeral details, so he went to the funerals and observed them covertly. He said he didn’t tell his bosses he was doing this because “It would never be authorized.”
He said the days he claimed mileage when there was no funeral were probably days when he got a late call and rushed out to do a funeral by himself.
His supervisors would say his covert trips to funerals wouldn’t be authorized, but he filed for expenses regardless. Nice.
Category: National Guard
It’s assholes like this that made my job harder when I was NCOIC of our Base HG.
Yup. I was an NCOIC in a local Drill Sgt unit and we performed Honor Guard details for local funerals. Most of the duties I performed were no charge as they were usually such short notice that I wouldn’t have time for preapproval for orders or travel authorization.
He threw it all away for 10k? Multiple felonies, public humiliation, potential prison time…smart guy.
Hope the clown has a hankering for cockmeat sammiches with extra manmayo and intense anal dilation therapy sessions with Dr’s. Bubba, Thor, Julio and “Tiny”…
“The OIG recommends that the Ohio Guard require additional documentation to better track the reasons why people are claiming travel reimbursements, a daily vehicle log and a policy on inspecting funeral details.”
Thanks for the added paperwork, asshole. And thanks to your first line supervisor who should have caught this last September.
The Guard must file claims the old fashioned way. Reserves is all electronic and it takes a near Act of God to get reimbursed – provided the three levels approved it in the first place. Otherwise, a Senior NCO? Toast.
The Guards no different. You must submit/attach substantiating paperwork to the travel order request/local voucher request in DTS.
Standard full timers. An Army of one out for themselves.
Brilliant, just fuxxing brilliant! I hope he gets knocked down to E1 and a Big Chicken Dinner!
Just think, people like this are all over the federal payrolls, he just got caught.
This is why people end up with a GPS monitoring system in their vehicle…because of the liars…
Lying on travel vouchers? Yep that’s been going on for quite a while now.
Just like the first group of female submarine officers who got shitcanned.
Travel claims will fuck you. Every. Single. Time.
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GREED it will bite you in the Ass